Joe Biden used various private email addresses from which he would sometimes send, receive and forward government correspondence according to emails found on Hunter Biden‘s laptop.
The concerns over the use of a private e-mail server could represent a conflict of interest and the services are also more prone to hacking than secured government accounts.
Biden is said to have used various pseudonyms including ‘Robin Ware,’ ‘Robert L. Peters’ and ‘JRB ware’.
While he was Vice President, Joe Biden would frequently use private email addresses, Hunter Biden’s laptop shows with many of the government emails forwarded to him
Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi (pictured) paid Hunter Biden $83,333 a month to sit on its board
For at least four weeks in 2016, a worker in the Office of the Vice President, John Flynn, would send Biden his daily schedule to his private email address, Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov while copying Hunter according to Fox News.
There were 10 such e-mails which were copied to Hunter between May 18 and June 15, 2016.
The Robert Peters e-mail address used a @pci.gov domain. The service had been labeled as problematic by the DNS Institute’s Domain Name System security report in 2020.
One email from Flynn to being sent to Joe, a.k.a Robert Peters, from May 2016 which was also cc’d to Hunter schedules ‘8.45am prep for 9am phonecall with Pres Poroshenko’ who was the Ukrainian president.
At the time, Hunter was being paid $83,333 a month to sit on the board of corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Ltd.
He had started working for Burisma in 2014 and finally departed two months after his father left the office of vice president.
Just months earlier, in December 2015, Biden had threatened Poroshenko that he would withhold $1 billion in US aid unless he fired Ukraine’s top prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the owner of Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky.
Shokin was widely accused of corruption and removed from office in March 2016.
Emails obtained by Hunter Biden’s laptop show Joe Biden would use three pseudonyms: ‘Robin Ware,’ ‘Robert L. Peters’ and ‘JRB ware’ when emailing his two sons, Hunter, left and Beau, right. They are pictured at Obama’s Inaugural Parade in January 2009
State Department officials are said to have attempted to raise concerns with directly with Biden about Hunter’s involvement with Burisma but the complaints were rebuffed.
Another forwarded email from Joe Biden using one of his alias private emails, RobinWare456@gmail.com, saw him write to both Hunter and his brother Beau, who was the Delaware attorney general, on March 26, 2012.
The forwarded e-mail was from Deputy Secretary of State (and now current Secretary of State) Antony Blinken.
The email was from the US Ambassador to Ukraine John Tefft: ‘Beau visited Kyev [Ukraine] on the Friday and gave a talk on corruption at the Hyatt . . . then attended reception at the residence where he met many young Ukrainian lawyers. We received many compliments on his presentation and for simply a frank discussion of a problem that still bedevils this country.’
Hunter started working for Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company, in 2014.
He earned $83,333-a-month from Burisma until two months after Joe left office.
In the years that followed the emails, Hunter became addicted to crack cocaine and alcohol. Photos like this one were found on the same laptop as the emails
Before Joe left office, he was referred to as ‘the big guy’ and described in an email from a Ukrainian executive at Burisma which suggested he’d gotten access to him through Hunter.
It raised serious questions because the executive was also being investigated by a Ukrainian prosecutor who was ousted after Joe leveraged $1billion in American aide money to get him out.
Joe has in the past denied ever offering access to him or the White House to any of Hunter’s business associates.
The laptop purportedly once owned by the president’s son has produced a series of revelations about Hunter Biden’s convoluted family sagas and international business deals.
DailyMail.com consulted computer forensics experts who vouched for its authenticity. The New York Post reported on some of its email contents weeks before the election, reporting that it was dropped off at a Delaware repair shop in 2019 and never picked up.
This month DailyMail.com revealed Hunter arranged White House and vice presidential residence meetings with his father for two Mexican billionaires with whom he was planning multi-million-dollar business ventures – and that Joe took Hunter and his business partner on Air Force 2 to Mexico amid those deals.
And last month DailyMail.com revealed that former FBI director Louis Freeh, who represented a criminal Romanian property tycoon alongside Hunter, spoke with Joe while the VP was still in office about Joe Biden joining his consultancy firm in 2017.
The White House has not responded to DailyMail.com’s questions about any of the incidents.
As vice president, Biden was obliged to preserve all emails involving his government work.
‘The Presidential Records Act required Joe Biden to make sure that any of his gmail account e-mails, including these e-mails to Hunter Biden, were forwarded to a government account so they could properly be handled by the National Archives,’ Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told Just the News.
Joe Biden’s use of private e-mail addresses has parallels with Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server scandal.
Hillary Clinton faced a year-long probe over thousands of classified documents found on a private email server she kept in her home while she was secretary of state
Clinton faced a year-long probe over thousands of classified documents found on a private email server she kept in her home while she was secretary of state.
Despite the discovery of more than 2,000 documents that American intelligence agencies had to redact – because they were classified – before releasing Clinton’s emails to the public, the former diplomat has insisted she never sent or received emails containing materials ‘marked classified’ at the time.
Clinton and her team have long maintained she used a home email server out of convenience and that they made efforts to honor record-keeping laws by forwarding information to official government accounts.
She also said she inked an agreement upon taking office in 2009 that acknowledged she was responsible for recognizing classified material even if it lacked markings.
Scrutiny of Clinton’s email practices, which Republicans condemned and which she ultimately apologized for, proved to be a major obstacle in her 2016 presidential loss to President Donald Trump.
